sshd logging

[Valeri Galtsev]

On Mon, July 17, 2017 6:35 pm, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On July 17, 2017 at 6:38:00 AM -0400 Daniel Feenberg <feenberg at nber.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 17 Jul 2017, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>>
>>> El día domingo, julio 16, 2017 a las 10:34:42p. m. -0500, Paul Schmehl
>>> escribió:
>>>
>>>> Is there a way to get sshd to only log successful logins?
>>>
>>> What about using ipf(8)?
>>
>> denyhosts or fail2ban would be easier. You'd still get a few lines in
>> the
>> logs, but only a few.
>>

I use sshguard (you may want to look also at sshguard-ipfw, sshguard-pf).
ssh is not the only service sshguard can protect. Just one more option.

Valeri

>
> Thanks, Dan. I'll take a look.
>
> I've never understood why logging routinely records every failed
> interaction. I suppose it's because summarizing it would take more
> processing plus some sort of database. Seriously though, why should I care
> about failed logins? It's the successful ones that I need to know about.
>
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Valeri Galtsev
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